The Spinning World

The Spinning World
Author: Giorgio Riello
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199696160

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This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. It provides new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development?